Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	punish_v	punishment_n	sin_n	7,494	5	5.5732	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27605	The general inefficacy and insincerity of a late or death-bed repentance with earnestest disswasives from committing our eternal condition, to that infinite hazard, and a full resolution of the case, how far a death-bed repentance is possible, to be sincere and effectual.	Beverley, Thomas.	1670 (1670)	Wing B2147; ESTC R18995	57,818	104

themselves innumerable Accidents and oftimes made dreadful by the wickedness wherewith they have been accompanied have snatch'd away men in a moment Such are taken a way living and in his wrath before the Pots can feel the Pal. 58 9 thorns before ever those hasty flames of motion towards God blown up for such an extremity can be raised Such are taken in the very manner without so much time as to put off the Every-Day Habit of Sin like those that were carried out dead in their Coats Lev. 10. 5. And though from the ordinary manner of Dying vve may hope for the vvarning ordinarily given yet vve see others surprized vvho have had the same reasons of Hope vvith our selves We cannot then vvithout madness trust our selves to accident or boast our Pro. 27. 1. selves of to morrow of vvhich vve knovv not vvhat is vvithin it seeing the future is vvholy concealed from us They that make a Covenant with death and are at an agreement with Hell meet with nothing but perfidiousness Isa 28. 18 c. when the overflowing scourge approaches them the storm of Hail rends their refuge of lies If vve vvere provided against all but one single accident even that may fall upon us vvith the ruin that all the rest could bring Let a man examine vvhether he can choose his Death and design the circumstances of it and place every thing just as he vvould have it and thereby afford himself the season he thinks necessary for such a purpose But vvho is so foolish as to undertake this He that builds upon ground that is none of his ovvn is like to have all his Frame overturned at the pleasure of another God derides this Folly vvho hath all things in his ovvn hand and disposes them vvithout our knovvledg Go too ye that say To day or to morrow Iam. 4. 13. we will go to such a place and buy and sell and get gain Psa 104. 3. But oh miserable is he that thinks as God to lay the beams of his Chambers that he builds for his eternal rest in the Waters the flovving incertainty of future time vvherehe hath nothing to do and oversees the proper Rest appointed him by God seeing both his presumption and his prophane negligence are likely to be punished together For indeed he that is vvickedly prodigal of vvhat God affords him as his and is bold to entrench upon the future vvhich is Gods vvhen he comes to it finds it full and possessed already vvith vvhat God hath provided for it so there is no room for his project but he perishes for ever in the disappointment 2. It is against our Duty and all the Obligations that lye on us For it is as if a man should say to God Odibile est apud Deum quande homo sub fiducia poenitentiae in senectutem reservatam liberius peccat August Serm. 120. I knovv it is my Duty and the end of my Life and the providence thou exercisest tovvards me that I should novv serve thee and give up my self to thee But I beg of thee that while I live I may live in my lusts sensualities and vvhen I am to dye and go out of the world and shall have no more time and leisure for any thing else I shall then have nothing to do but to look towards thee beseech thy favour and leave my sins I desire thee therefore to stay for my Repentance till then and when I can no longer enjoy the World then to grant me a Kingdom with thy self and the fruition of thy own happiness for though I shall dishonour thee in the tract of my Life yet I will retract it all in a breath How horribly contemptuous of God doth this appear how affronting and blasphemous and yet this is the very sense of deferring Repentance till Death This is the greatest immorality and irreligion for it destroyes the reason of our Being on earth which A 〈◊〉 ● 36 is to serve our generation or the course of our Life according to the will of God to glorifie ●im here on Earth It destroyes the service yet flies upon the reward as if Iohn 17. 4. God were bound to make men happy because he had made them and that he had made them first to take the delights he most abhorres to dishonour him by deforming his workmanship violating his Laws the good order he hath set in the World and yet after all because he had made them to give them a blessedness so insuperably great that he could find no greater and by no means to hurt or punish them for sin though all the Justice that ever was known to man requires punishment of offenders as much as the reward of Desert else all Government would be lost Thus therefore to imagine of God is to melt him down with those great Attributes of Justice and wisdom into a foolish and unreasonable pity and only for this end that there may be a licentiousness in wickedness and impiety And seeing upon the same account all the men in the World may adjourn their Love and Obedience to God to their going out of it It might come to pass that this state should have been prepared only as a Stage for the vices and exorbitancies of men to have acted themselves upon and then they to have removed to Heaven when as though these have large scope indeed now as things are yet their licentiousness is dayly rebuked by the threats of the Gospel by the holy conversations of those that have left their sins by Repentance and punished by an eternal Judgment hereafter But who that considers the infinite goodness and greatness of God that in his hand is our life and breath and allour ways can think it equal that God should have only the faint and feeble services of a Death-Bed for all the preservation and mercy vouchsafed through the course of our lives Or who can think it consistent with his honour to give men Laws that point upon the Government of themselves here and that he should at so general a rate as the necessity of mens manner of living requires accept of such a commutation or exchange for the obedience due to them as a Death-Bed Repentance Or least of all who can believe that Jesus Christ should come a Redeemer into the World a Redeemer Ti● 2. 14. from all iniquity a purchaser from a vain conversation that ●e might have a peculiar people zealous of good works who shouldlook for the great day his glorious appearance Rom. 2. 7. by a patient expectation and continuance in well-doing● to which he hath also tyed them by the most strict obligations that created nature is capable of and yet that this in a manner should be wh●ly frustrated even in those supposed to be redeemed by him How shall such a man then be able to look God or Jesus Christ the Saviour in the face that hath but just begun to acknowledg